Overstaying -- Ariane Koch, Paperback Home Improvement / Construction his powers too depleted to

his powers too depleted to escape

country music

she marches on

When it comes to work

"--Paul Stamets

Overstaying -- Ariane Koch, Paperback Home Improvement / Construction his powers too depleted toWinner of the most prestigious German prize for debut fiction, Swiss playwright and visual artist Ariane Koch's Overstaying is an absurdist tour de force. "I don't see my writing as chronological or classically narrative, but as spatial a kind of architecture. I keep adding rooms, and readers can take different paths through the rooms," writes Ariane Koch of Overstaying, her anarchically comic debut. Koch's narrator is an impudent young woman, a